AP language 121-140 Flashcards
Appeal to authority
Hey fallacy in which a speaker or writer seeks to persuade not by giving evidence but by appealing to the respect people have for a famous person or institution
Appeal to ignorance
Fallacy based on the assumption that a statement must be true if it cannot be proved false
Concession
And argumentative strategy by which a
Speaker or writer acknowledges the Valatie of an opponents points
Encomium
A tribute or eulogy impose or verse glorifying people object ideas or events
False dilemma
Fallacy or oversimplification that offers a limited number of options usually do when in fact more options are available
Running style sentence
Sentence style that appears to follow the mind as it worries a problem through mimicking the rambling associative syntax of conversation the opposite of periodic sentence style
Explication on
An explanation or interpretation imperative sentence is commanding interrogative is questioning exclamatory is expressing enthusiasm or excitement declarative is declaring a statement or fat infinitives are to be verbs to come to show to dance
Implacable
Not to be appeased mollified or pacified inexorably mitigating to become milder lessen in severity
Eclectic
Not following anyone system as a philosophy medicine etc. but selecting and using what are considered the best elements of all systems
Opprobrium
The disgrace or the reproach incurred by conduct considered outrageously shameful Infamy
Aberrant
Deviating from the ordinary usual or normal top exceptional or abnormal
Stymie
To hinder block or thwart
Nascent
Beginning to exist or develop
Avarice
Insatiable greed for riches In order that misery desire to gain or hoard wealth
Urbane
Having the polish and suavity regarded as characteristic of sophisticated social life in major cities and urban manner reflecting elegant sophistication etc. and expression he maintained in urban tone in his letters
